E15

...Battersea Arts Centre

...'Under (LABOUR) mayor Robin Wales, the debt-ridden Newham council cut funding for the hostel and tried to move those in need of social housing out of the borough and into private rented accommodation elsewhere in the UK, even though there were empty blocks of flats boarded up on the nearby Carpenters estate in Stratford, east London. The council didn’t know what had hit it when these young mums decided to band together, alert the world to their forced evictions and occupy the estate.'  Lyn Gardner, Guardian

...Focus E15 - Social Housing not Social Cleansing